Abstract
This study investigated how junior high school and senior high school students' maternal consiousness, image of children and their view toward child development changed as they grew older and by taking classes in nursery education. The results are as follows : 1. In junior high school, they came to have more interests in children and their image of children changed as they took classes in nursery education. 2. In senior high school, they came to have more interests in children and their image of children changed owing to the positive mutual influence of growing older and taking classes in nursery education.
